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I pull a card...if it doesn't speak to me...perhaps it was meant for you?    How to Read the Tarot Begin by brewing a cup of tea, a nervine, lemon balm or chamomile, this is after all, your future. A reading at the dark of the moon is best, before the night creatures crawl and bad humours fill the air. Pick a circular deck, with a fairy-tale motif, and no reversals. Hold a question in your heart, shuffle the cards and place them on the table. Choose only two. Like the ancient Israelites, these are your seer stones, Urim and Thumimm, black and white, yes or no. Isn't that all you were asking?  |
Hymn Beltane follows close on the heels of Easter and Passover this year leading us to the Summer Solstice, preceded by April's full pink moon. All through these high holy times and cross-quarter days through winter, spring, summer, autumn I have heard a grim hymn. It is the banshees keening for our sanctuary cities disappearing, dark whispers that our democracy is dead. Yet still, in this abyss there is breath, beauty, and light. And petals falling, falling from the redbud trees. 15 lines Prompt: winter. spring, summer, autumn The HerbCrafter's Tarot--8 of Air--Licorice--Proclaim your truth. Walk out through the gate. |
| Mysteries of the Night The embers in the grate fade to a glimmer. I pray to be dreamed by something larger than myself. Kali-Ma arrives, wild. ferocious, dipped in blood. In this moment, I sing to the Beloved, to the mysteries of the night. Ma, make me strong. Ma, make me fearless. Ma, keep me free, Ma, may I not faint from sorrow. I keep the Mary light burning. 14 lines Dark Goddes Tarot--XVI-Destruction--Kali--Destruction can be slow and grinding as well as violent and sudden. Get on with it and get out from under or be dust. Prompt: title of poem Mysteries of the Night |
Co-Presient There once was a President Musk that caused us to scream WTF. He has fourteen kids all ego and id. Let's immolate a cybertruck. 5 lines Form & prompt: A Limerick Sabian Oracle--Gemini 24--We live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them. Skating on thin ice. |
| Sign Me Up Sign me up for the great human HOWL. The secret is out. We will dance in the rain, twist and shout, shatter glass ceilings, organize flash mobs, pollinate our dreams. We will huddle in tightly knit clans, shred our threadbare habits, drum till the earth shakes. Sign me up for the HOWL. 13 lines Prompt--picture of a woman dancing in the grass with an umbrella The Sibyls Oraculum--Inceptum--Initiative--Prepare your mind to move. Do not stand still for any reason. |
| Violets for Her Furs I asked Divine Mother, in this burning, fractured world, "What should I do, where should I go?'. STAY, she said. I will stay for spring's wildflowers in Florida's fields, wetlands. I think she will like best the tiny common blue violet so moist and low to the ground. I will stay and wrap Our Mother in violets. 14 lines prompt: anticipating spring No oracle card--violets are gentle and healing--Violets for Her furs is an old jazz song. |
| Ode to February We are all ruins here though no dramatic changes or revolutions afoot. Just a slow burn through February. The power elites ignore our voices that echo from these mean streets. In time, all bodies crumble and fade. Still, our unheroic acts keep things better then they might have been. Here in February I hear only the voices of my friends. 12 lines Prompt: Ode to February Oracle of the Essences--Cassia--Strength, Confidence--antimicrobial, antiviral--Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln |
| Prayer to the One out there Earth our home dirt, blood, bones create new birth Double helix DNA we pray Fix 8 lines Form and Prompt: Quadrette The HerbCrafter's Tarot--5 of Earth--Slippery Elm--Soothe the pain of those in need. |
| Mudflat Love Despite what you think there are many ways to love a mudflat. Trudge through the sludge, it is nature's magic gel, capricious, dynamic, malleable, thixotropic. Discover microbes, mollusks. orthopods, worm, a few sodden human acolytes. Didn't the Buddha say, "No mud, no lotus." I'll take my chances. 13 lines Prompt: Love Dark Goddess Tarot--Hag of Water--Ran (Nordic Goddess)--Deep in your soul you know where you belong, and where you do not. |
| Project 2025 Wendigo spirit infects all the government now, apocalypse cannibalistic rapacious, greedy, evil humans of power they have hearts of ice narcissistic women, men terrorists writ large we will always fight tyranny and oppression freedom is at stake 12 lines--Haiku chain The Herbcrafter's Tarot--16--The Tower--Mushrooms--Build resilience through strength |
| Concatenation There is a tear in the fabric of my reality. I am patching Indra's net with mosses, roses, daises, tulips and wild Fakahatchee Strand orchids. Great Mother, show me your thin places where the world is still being made, where I can speak the language of the flowers. My mind is a beastly bell jar. Help me to mimic the words of the seas and the stars. Everything is concatenated. 13 lines Prompt: use the words roses, daises, tulips. Oracle of the Essences--Rose--Follow your heart's desire. |
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